In La Paz, a low-income neighborhood on the outskirts of Santa Marta, Colombia, water service from the local utility can be erratic or nonexistent. Pictured: Neighborhood kids stand next to a rain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Similarly, the ...

Growing up, Amaka Godfrey remembers how much of her life revolved around water. She'd have to lug a can of water to her primary school in Nigeria each day, which had no water of its own. Later, in ...